Creative Writing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2009
In the Excerpt section you can get a glimpse of the writers’ work. Please feel free to react to, or comment on, the pieces you read in this supportive forum. If you are moved to write a response piece or share some writing of your own, please do so. The first excerpt was James McLean’s poem […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2009
The chapbook “thursdays: poems and prose from the Downtown Eastside” is a paper reflection of a group of writers that has been meeting every Thursday afternoon at the Carnegie Community Centre on the downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The word “chapbook” is said to come from the Old English “ceop” for “cheap,” meaning that chapbooks are […]
